Royals break open win with switch on hit-and-run play

With one out in the fifth inning of a 1-1 game, Jarrod Dyson reached on an infield hit. As Dyson tried for a stolen base, Seattle second baseman Nick Franklin went to cover the base. The batter Alcides Escobar then punched a ground ball into the vacancy on the right side of the infield and Dyson ran all the way to third.

“It’s been a long rehab,” Paulino said. “I’ve been working on my elbow, my elbow is fine ... but my shoulder is the thing right now. I’ve got big, big chronic inflammation there and it’s not going down. The only way to make it go down is to shut it down completely.”

Paulino hopes to play winter ball in Venezuela starting in about November.

“I feel bad for myself and I feel bad for the team, because sometimes I push myself too hard ... to show I can be back,” he said. “But I can’t right now. I have to listen to my body and my body says I can’t go right now.”

CAIN UPDATE

Center fielder Lorenzo Cain is making progress in his return from a strained left oblique muscle.

“I took some swings, took some outfield drills,” Cain said Monday. “I feel like it’s day-to-day right now. Hopefully, I can get back in there the next few days.

“I didn’t feel at it all during the running or outfield drills. Just getting the hitting together right now, just getting the timing. I still feel it a little bit when I hit.”

Cain ran on the base paths, doing drills that would mimic running through the bag at first, rounding first after a single, hitting a double, a triple and scoring from second base.

“I’ve been working, trying to get back out there as soon as possible, so we’ll see what happens,” Cain said. “Hopefully it continues to progress and I’ll join my teammates.”